ROQUETTE launches new pea fibre product

In bread making, PEA FIBER IG makes it possible to produce white bread that is both enriched with insoluble fibres and retains the colour and flavour of traditional bread.

16/12/08 PEA FIBER IG is Roquette’s new insoluble fibre. Obtained from the interior of the dry pea fibre, PEA FIBER IG combines numerous benefits that differentiate it from other insoluble fibres. Some of the most important of these are technological and organoleptic.

Fibre obtained from the internal part of the pea can be justifiably called “noble”. Meeting every food safety requirement, it comes in the form of a pure white powder. With average viscosity, it also has a completely neutral taste and is therefore an ingredient that affects neither the rheology nor the other critically important organoleptic properties of finished products. In bread making, for example, PEA FIBER IG makes it possible to produce white bread that is both enriched with insoluble fibres and retains the colour and flavour of traditional bread.

With approximately 70% fibre as dry substance, PEA FIBER IG probably has the highest internal fibre content of any ingredient currently on the market. It has the ability to absorb cold water without any excessive rise in viscosity.  Between 5 and 10% protein is available for its emulsifying capacity and 20% starch for hot viscosity and therefore gelling capacity.

Thanks to this high-performance composition, PEA FIBER IG offers numerous advantages. Its technological characteristics make it ideal for meat and bakery products. By retaining hot or cold water, it imparts juiciness or mouthfeel to meat products. In bakery products it offers smoothness while at the same time, (by contrast to other insoluble fibres) leaving pastry formation unaffected and enhancing product preservation. From an economical standpoint, it is a perfect substitute for meat or fat. In nutritional terms it offers optimum fibre enrichment. Its regulatory classification makes it an ingredient that may be declared as “dietary fibre” or “pea fibre”. In addition to all these advantages, the cultivation of the dry pea is environmentally friendly (no nitrate fertilizer is required).  Moreover, all these unique properties of PEA FIBER IG are available thanks to a simple, clean and natural extraction process that uses water as the only solvent.

There are two main types of fibre: soluble and insoluble. For several years ROQUETTE has been marketing a soluble fibre produced from cereals (wheat or maize) known as NUTRIOSE.